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CONTENTS The living room of a Southampton, New York, home designed by Timothy Haynes and Kevin Roberts. 178 92 ART SHOW 147 TOOLBOX 162 ELLE DECOR RETURNS TO Painter Philip Smith creates hiero- Smart products for stylish homes SAN FRANCISCO glyphics for today. By Julie Belcove 154 PUNCH LIST With more culinary innovation and cul- tural excitement than ever, the city 98 APPRAISAL What you need to renovate now by the bay is thriving. By Sylvia Brownrigg Christopher Dresser’s surprising 158 DANIEL’S DISH 19th-century designs. By Tim McKeough Coq au vin, a French country classic, 230 RESOURCES 110 GREAT IDEAS is more delicious than ever when Where to find it Dining rooms that are certain to make paired with an unexpected side dish. 232 ETCETERA any gathering a grand affair By Daniel Boulud Carving sets with an edge on style 118 TRUTH IN DECORATING Bernie de Le Cuona and Brian J. McCarthy tout the versatility and style of the best ottomans. By Tim McKeough 127 DESIGN SOLUTIONS A young designer freshens up an 84 FROM TOP: SIMON UPTON; LARA ROBBY/STUDIO D awkwardly laid-out Manhattan apart- ment for her family. By Michael Lassell Trays by Brian Gennett. 135 PRACTICAL MATTERS The best sources for the little touches that lift any room to heights of luxury. 18 ELLEDECOR.COM

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CONTENTS Cryptogram (1998), by Philip Smith. WHAT’S NEW 92 at ELLE DECOR ONLINE Looking for more ideas, inspiration, and information? Be sure to check out elledecor.com for all the latest THE LUXE LIFE Longing for luxury, as in Jackie Astier’s Manhattan apartment, above? Log on for the views and advice of designers and bloggers. Plus, join the conversation by tweeting your own defnition of luxe. Include the hashtag #EDluxury and your tweet may be featured on ELLEDECOR .com (elledecor.com/modernluxury). FEATURES 177 ELLE DECOR STYLE 178 HEADING FOR SHORE Timothy Haynes and Kevin Roberts craft a weekend house in the Hamp- tons that is both dress-up elegant and barefoot easy. By Nancy Hass The Tornasole 188 MASTER OF THE HOUSE table by He may be his own worst client, but Promemoria. when Alidad is forced to update his London apartment, the results jus- tify the effort. By Ingrid Abramovitch SWITCHED ON 194 ON A GRAND SCALE Intrigued by the new lighting options in Punch List? Check out our roundup of In his largest project to date, other luminous innovations, including, Jean-Louis Deniot enlists a bevy of from left, an LED-and-Swarovski pen- TOP RIGHT: ERIC PIASECKI craftsmen to create a home in dant, a light-up chair by Natevo, New Delhi, India, that’s the latest and an LED room divider by Luceplan 84 word in luxury living. By Ian Phillips (elledecor.com/lights). 20 ELLEDECOR.COM

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EDITOR’S PAGE LUXURY IS A LOADED TERM as I discovered last year when we published tiated by the international Elle Decoration our first issue devoted to the topic. For some, network, working with leading furniture Emblems of authenticity. FROM it is a word so overused as to seem virtu- makers to stress the importance of buying TOP: The Constance ally meaningless. Other readers considered authentic designs produced by licensed Cartable bag by Hermès. A Jenn- it almost obscene to even raise the idea at manufacturers. These pieces cost more than Air Pro Style range. a time of economic stagnation and high knock-offs, yes, but when you buy a licensed The Be Original logo. Ronan and unemployment. piece, whether by Le Corbusier or Isamu Erwan Bouroullec’s But luxury isn’t synonymous with money. Noguchi, Philippe Starck or the Bouroullec Vegetal chairs. God knows things that cost the most aren’t brothers, you are not only assured of some- necessarily better. And as someone who thing true and well made, you are also sup- loves a bargain, I understand the pleasure porting the companies that are investing in that paying less can bring—provided you the future of design. are paying less for the right thing. Good design is available at every price point, as important in an efficient and beautiful kitchen range as it is in the latest Mercedes. There is an old adage, quoted by virtually every famous designer: Buy the best you Michael Boodro, Editor in Chief can afford. And the last three words of that [email protected] maxim are as crucial as the first three. Lux- Follow me on Twitter: @MichaelBoodro ury should never lead to debt, just as being in debt is no luxury. So what really distinguishes luxury today? I would suggest that it is authenticity, whether that is expressed via a heritage of excellence attached to an object or a brand, or the inherent honesty of a design itself, one that is true to both its function and its PORTRAIT: KEVIN TACHMAN; BAG: HERMÈS; RANGE: JENN-AIR materials. The best retain their value. There is, after all, no eBay market for counterfeit Chanel or Hermès bags, while the real ones generate waiting lists for the new, and fierce bidding for the vintage. That is why I am proud that ELLE DECOR is part of Be Original, a new program ini- 38 ELLEDECOR.COM

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ON THE SCENE INGRID ABRAMOVITCH “One of the things I love by American Kelli Wilde about my job is having the and her French partner, opportunity to talk to leg- Laurent Champeau (page ends of design,” says 212). “I loved talking Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE with them about how both DECOR’s senior editor/ Paris and decor have writer, left. “They always changed over the past 25 show a side you don’t years, and learning from expect.” Her feature on them the cultural history Alidad’s London apart- of Nouvelle Athènes, the ment (page 188) reveals a quartier behind the Gar- designer whose grand nier opera.” A frequent interiors belie a much dif- contributor to ELLE DECOR ferent personality. “He’s DANA THOMAS as well as T: The New York deliberate and neurotic Times Style Magazine, and indecisive, which is Thomas is working on a something we can all Describing herself as “a in her kitchen garden follow-up to her best- relate to,” she says. “And longtime American with Daisy, her Jack Rus- seller, Deluxe: How Luxury he knows how to poke fun expat in Paris married to sell terrier—was perfectly Lost Its Luster, to be at himself.” Likewise, a Frenchman,” Dana suited to write about a published next year by architect Peter Marino, the Thomas—pictured above Paris apartment designed Penguin Press. subject of this month’s “Unconventional Wis- dom” column (page 88): “Peter had more of a sense IAN PHILLIPS of humor than I expected. This is a guy who looks like Before Paris-based jour- treated like a prince. A a Hell’s Angel! But he’s nalist Ian Phillips visited maharajah was more like it. very funny and passionate the palatial home of “When I asked for scram- about what he does.” Nasreen and Moin Qureshi bled eggs for breakfast the in New Delhi, India, first day, Moin insisted I (page 194), he was told by have black truffles on top,” its designer, Jean-Louis says Phillips, shown in the Deniot, that he would be Qureshis’ home. “Mean- while, Nasreen organized for a masseur to come at EUGENIA the end of each day to SANTIESTEBAN reduce the tensions of the SOTO, photo crew. I’m always ORLI BEN-DOR, impressed when I meet AND HANNAH people who have achieved MARTIN great success in life, but who have not lost touch It takes a village to put an with what’s essential.” issue of ELLE DECOR nah Martin, right, are the together—specifically, the team behind “Truth in Dec- Hearst Design Group’s orating” (page 118). “This 12-member market depart- month, we looked at every ment. Eugenia Santieste- ottoman on the market,” ban Soto, above, assem- says Ben-Dor. “The shoot bles our monthly “Trend is like a party, especially Alert” column (page 74). now that I film a video at “I put on a fashion editor’s the same time.” Martin, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: LUIGI MENDUNI; HERVÉ D’HALLUIN; STEPHAN JULLIARD; DAVID A. LAND; LARA ROBBY/STUDIO D hat for a few days and who also produces our spend hours looking at fashion-focused “Style fashion shows on style Sheet” (page 50), has the .com,” she says. “I look for less glamorous task of trends that are going to carrying and assembling translate to the home—a the pieces on set. “I’ve mood or a pattern.” Orli become really good with Ben-Dor, center, and Han- power tools,” she jokes. 42 ELLEDECOR.COM



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MAILBOX I’m a sucker for a good Sept. issue— @ELLEDECOR’s is dreamy—insane patterns and colors to obsess over (at least until the next issue is out). Dani Dudeck, @danidudeck September issue includes a French garden château and Roman palazzo. Needless to say, I’m in heaven. Heather Clawson, @habituallychic Love the tile-inspired print on the duvet in Yvan Mispelaere’s Paris apt. Studio Van den Akker, @StuVanDenAkker We are loving this indigo trend as well [Trend Alert, July/August]. Sometimes energetic, but generally calming. Kishani Perera, @kishaniperera This global chic theme in the @ELLE DECOR September issue is giving me so many ideas for my apartment! NOVEMBER 2013 played with in elementary school. The Anna, @annaschork bright colors and interlocking shapes of Kartell’s new pieces will certainly make them 21st-century classics. FACEBOOK Barry W. Myers, curator of decorative On Caitlin and Samuel Dowe-Sandes’s art, Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, FL Marrakech home: I loooove the selec- tion of the tiles—the right combination I was moved to write by the photo- of colors and patterns. graph of the Château Royal d’Amboise Manuel Luis Morales Narvaez on page 106 of the September issue [“ELLE DECOR Goes to the Loire Valley”]. On Russborough House: It is not just an That Brian Jannsen managed to capture estate property—it’s a world to preserve both the clear Vermeer cerulean of the and share with future generations. surrounding sky and the gouache reflec- Paula Soares tion in the river below—yielding multiple perspectives in the East Asian manner— On Yvan Mispelaere’s living room: is a quietly stunning achievement. Those drapes are dramatic. They make Stewart Burke, Arlington, VA me think of the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica, designed by Kelly Wearstler. Graybill & Downs TWEETS Congratulations @ELLEDECOR for one of I love the Zanotta sectional...beautiful! MAIL the prettiest covers yet! Antoinette Daniels Susanna Salk, @ssalk Your September 2013 cover photo On François-Joseph Graf’s living room: features one of the most ridiculous dec- I’m swooning over the Paris apartment in This is one gorgeous space—interest- orating ideas I have ever seen. I defy the September issue. Gorgeous! ing, complex, and flled with beautiful anyone to attempt pulling a paperback Mary Stephens Mitchell, @mmlaser objects. from the bottom of the stack without Tony Mavilia having books tumble all over the room. Thomas Olkowski, Roxborough, CO A room at The story “Oscar Worthy” [October 2013] had Russborough House. an incorrect credit line. The story was pro- Editor’s note: The “stack” of books on duced by Anita Sarsidi and styled by Robert the cover is actually a vertical shelving Rufno. We apologize for the error. FROM TOP: RICHARD POWERS; SIMON UPTON; JAMES FENNELL system. Thin shelves hold fve or six books each, making it relatively easy to remove a single book. FROM TOP: The Write to us: Mailbox, ELLE DECOR, entry of a château 300 West 57th Street, 27th foor, New York, NY in the Loire Valley I was delighted to see the new plastic 10019. E-mail: [email protected]. with gardens furniture by Kartell in the Toolbox section designed by Louis Follow us on Twitter: @elledecor. Benech. The of the September issue. It nostalgically Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/ September issue. reminded me of a favorite learning toy I ELLEDECORmag. 46 ELLEDECOR.COM



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